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They did know they were vermin. Slagar didn't even bother hiding it. He strolled into the Abbey in all his foxy glory with a very obvious verminous band following him.

However, seeing as the entire band was unarmed and the fact that one of the vermin slavers, Skinpaw, actually was really from a traveling show at one point in his career, vermin-manned traveling shows might not have actually been all that irregular in those days.

This proves to show that the Redwallers weren't all that intensely distrustful of vermin back then. In the more recent books, the woodlanders probably just got dog-gone tired of vermin and decided the safer route was not to trust them at all. The increasing amount of vermin attacks in the later books didn't help.